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There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.
Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.
My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.
It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.
Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.
Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'
I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.
When you go out to Hollywood, it's like, "Here's the book. It is what it is. It'll always stay the same."
The positive side about dealing with the logistics of moving books around is that it's better than a gym!
With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do.
The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with.
A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.
It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
After reading the Elon Musk book and getting a Tesla - he is at the top of my list of inspiring founders.
I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.
Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones.
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.
Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.
If writing and publishing a book is like giving birth to a child, then book marketing is like rearing it.
I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn't have, than the Holy Spirit they did.
I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.
I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote.
I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes.
He blinked, then roared with laughter. "Eve Dallas, Vampire Slayer. One for the books." ~Eternity in Death
The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.
Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.
It was like meeting someone out of your dreams, or fantasies, or a beloved character from a favorite book.
I get annoyed with movies or books, songs or records that deliberately try to make you feel a certain way.
A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.
If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work.
But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.
I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being with you.
In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.
Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.
I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.
Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.
I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.